"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved
mystery."-- Vanity Fair
One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting story
of the 1990 Gardner Museum robbery, the largest unsolved art theft in
history. Perfect for fans of the Netflix series This is a Robbery: The
World's Biggest Art Heist!
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art
heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one
Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads,
hundreds of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single painting
has been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing
masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft
one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.
Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his
death, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to pick up where he left off.
Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith's
unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters,
including a brilliant rock 'n' roll art thief and a golden-boy gangster
who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A tale of art and greed,
of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the
stolen masterpieces themselves.
